Xuanwu is a divine beast that guards the north, that is, the Emperor Zhenwu. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Now, the golden top of Wudang Mountain is still paying tribute to the golden statue of the emperor.

Wudang Mountain has seventy-two peaks, thirty-six rocks, twenty-four streams, eleven holes, three pools, nine springs, ten pools, nine wells, ten stones, nine platforms and other scenic spots.

The scenic spot takes Tianzhu Peak as the center, and there are dangerous roads such as upper and lower eighteen plates, as well as "seventy-two peaks towards the big top" and "golden palace superimposed shadows".

When I came to Wudang Mountain, I have to say Taihe Palace.

Taihe Palace is the highest scenic spot of Wudang Mountain, whether it is a Taoist believer, or a pilgrim tourist, only by climbing to the top and entering the Taihe Palace, it is the real sense to Wudang Mountain.

Dayue Taihe Palace is built on the top of Tianzhu Peak, the highest peak of Wudang that is supported by many peaks and plunges into the sky.

At the peak of 1612 meters, the construction of a large-scale Taoist palace reflects more of an unprecedented spirit and the victory of the conqueror, and the special landform of Wudang Mountain forms the arch of the peaks, and the landscape of worship in all directions also magically renders the supremacy of imperial power.

Taihe Palace is the same as other Taoist palaces in terms of architectural regulations, but because there is a golden hall above it, its original main hall has been downgraded and is called a "pilgrimage temple".

In the pilgrimage temple, there are statues of bronze gilt Xuanwu and his subordinates, such as the god of thunder and the spirit officer. For a period of time in the Ming Dynasty, pilgrims and believers, including those in the mountain road, could only go so far as to worship the Emperor Xuanwu, and it was absolutely not allowed to go to the golden top, and they could only look at the golden palace from a distance.

The Imperial Scripture Hall of Taihe Palace is the place where Taoists chant the scriptures every morning and evening, and it is also an important sacrificial place in Wudang Taoism. This temple was destroyed by fire at the end of the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt during the Qing Daoguang period.

Its partition doors are all embossed with rare birds and beasts and Taoist fairy stories, and its craftsmanship is exquisite and has a strong folk culture color. The statues, offerings, and ritual vessels in the Imperial Scripture Hall are dazzling, all of which are fine products of casting art and carving art.

In the middle of the hall, the huge plaque of "born heaven and earth" is written by Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty.

There is a hall on the small lotus peak of Taihe Palace, which contains a bronze hall cast in the Yuan Dynasty. This bronze hall with a history of nearly 700 years is an imitation wood structure, which is a precious object for studying the copper casting art of the Yuan Dynasty, and it is also the earliest existing copper hall in China.

Because it was originally placed on the Tianzhu Peak, the Ming Dynasty built the Golden Palace to transfer it here, so people also call it "the transfer hall". With its homophony, many pilgrims and visitors go inside to take a turn in order to "run the time".

The golden summit on the top of Tianzhu Peak, the main peak of Wudang Mountain, is the essence and symbol of Wudang Mountain, and it is also a symbol of Wudang Taoism moving towards its peak under the support of the royal family.

It was founded in the Ming Yongle decade.

In that year, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, ordered the construction of the Taihe Palace, and after the completion of the Jiafeng Wudang Mountain as "Dayue Taihe Mountain", the Taoist Palace built on the top of the mountain was "Dayue Taihe Palace".

The emperor's Jiafeng made Wudang Mountain's status the first of the five mountains in one fell swoop.

In the Ming Dynasty, during the Jiajing period, the Taihe Palace was expanded again, making the palace as many as 520 rooms. After that expansion, the name of the place has changed, with the golden roof wall as the boundary, the outside of the wall is called "Taihe Palace", and the inside of the wall is called "Purple Golden City". "There is the Forbidden City in the north and the Purple City in the south", which shows that the status of the Taihe Palace of Dayue at that time was second only to the imperial palace in Beijing.

The overall architectural layout of Taihe Palace is to live in natural danger and follow the mountain situation, making full use of the natural ups and downs of its mountain shape, and adding its grandeur by its steep danger in the construction, so as to achieve the solemn and solemn artistic effect of the atmosphere, which makes people feel the stability in the hanging and the majesty of the unique cloud.

The ancients praised it as "a thousand stories of pavilions rise in the air, and thousands of stacks of clouds and mountains are under the ring", and said that this is "the legacy of the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, which is rare in previous dynasties".

World cultural heritage experts, spatial experts, and architectural experts who have been to Wudang Mountain are all amazed by the architectural ideas reflected in the Taihe Palace of Dayue and the high degree of unity of the cultural landscape and the natural landscape, and speak highly of this "masterpiece of ancient times, no one before or after".

In the fourteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, the Taihe Palace was built in the Tianzhu Peak of Wudang Mountain. At that time, there was no city wall around the top of Tianzhu Peak.

In the seventeenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, ordered Zhang Xin to wait for Zhang Xin and Mu Xin, the commander of the horses, to build the Purple Gold City of Tianzhu Peak. Ming Chengzu issued an edict on the construction of the city wall, saying: "The golden roof is built around the city wall, and the mountain itself should not be repaired, and the wall should be strong and strong according to the terrain." ”

The whole project took five years to complete, and the circumference of the wall built with huge stone masonry is 344 meters. On the city wall, four heavenly gates were built according to the east, west, north and south directions to symbolize the heavenly gate. The four heavenly gates are in the sky, trying their best to render the majesty of the heavenly immortal realm.

This is the origin of the Taihe Palace of Wudang Mountain.

World heritage experts, spatial experts, and architectural experts who have been to Wudang Mountain are all amazed by the architectural ideas reflected in the Taihe Palace of Dayue and the high degree of unity of the cultural landscape and the natural landscape, believing that this is a masterpiece of ancient times, which has never been seen before or since.

Here, there have always been three wonders, which have been explored by people in every way for a hundred years.

For example, the "magic lamp" that never goes out.

In the Golden Hall of Wudang Mountain, there is a Changming oil lamp, which has been lit uninterrupted for more than 500 years and has never been extinguished.

The wind and sand at the summit do not seem to have any effect on it, and even if the temple door is wide open and the mountain wind is raging, the "magic lamp" will still burn there unharmed.

Such a magic lamp, rare in the world, Ye Chao went to see it, and felt that it was really magical.

Modern scholars have used scientific principles to explain the phenomenon of "magic lamps". They believe that the reason why the magic lamp is not extinguished is that the air in the temple cannot be convection, and the "magic lamp" is not affected by the external climate.

As for whether this explanation really has a scientific basis, Ye Chao doesn't know, because sometimes science is like this, what is right at this time may be wrong at another time.

For example, Newton's laws and the theory of relativity are good proofs, Ye Chao prefers that the current level of science cannot perfectly explain the wonder of the "inextinguishable magic lamp".

There are also two wonders, namely "the ancestor sweats" and "the seahorse spits fog"

"Patriarch sweating" and "seahorse spitting fog" refer to whenever the heavy rain is coming, there are many water droplets on the statue of the god in the golden hall of Wudang Mountain, just like people sweating, and the ridge ornament seahorse on the top of the golden hall "spit out" strings of white mist in the mouth, and also makes a sound, just like a real horse neighing at the sky.

Scientists have also explained this phenomenon in a similar way to the previous one: the temple was not well ventilated, and the water vapor in the air increased, so when the air pressure changed abruptly, water vapor appeared on the statue. The inside of the seahorse is empty and communicates with the inside of the temple, and the hot and humid air in the temple rises, and then spits out of the mouth of the "seahorse" and makes a sound.

In addition, there is also a legend of the "Thunder Fire Refining Palace".

In ancient times, there were no lightning protection facilities in the Golden Temple. Every year in the summer and autumn thunderstorm season, when the thunder and lightning are combined, the lightning rushes around the Golden Temple, and from time to time there are huge fireballs rolling around the Golden Palace, dazzling and dazzling, and the sky collapses and cracks when encountering the collision of objects.

The strange thing is that after being struck by lightning again and again, the Golden Temple is not only undamaged, without a trace, but also more golden and shining, as new as ever.

Once struck by lightning, it seems to have been smelted once, just like the ancient poem: "Thunder and fire are cast into gold."

As a result, the Thunder Fire Refining Hall has become a great spectacle of the golden top of Wudang Mountain.

Legend has it that Emperor Zhenwu was afraid that the pilgrims would stain the Golden Palace, and he was afraid of stealing the rare treasures in the Golden Palace, so he sent Lei Gong and Dianmu to wash the Golden Palace every year.

The first is to remove the dirt from the Golden Palace and keep it clean, and the second is to make the villains with bad intentions frightened and frightened.